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RESOLUTION N0. 62-19
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA
MESA OPPOSING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FEDERAT. DEPART-
MENT OF URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING (51633 & HR 6+33)
AND URGING THE APPOIN`T'MENT OF A SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO
THE PRESIDENT FOR URBAN AFFAIRS.
WHEREAS, the creation of a new Federal Department of Urban
Affairs and Housing is now proposed in Senate Bill 1633 and House of Represent-
atives Bill 64.33; and
WHEREAS, this Counckl believes that the proposed new Secretary of
Urban Affairs and Housing would be unable to efficiently coordinate related
Federal activities located in other Federal departments; and
WHFMEAS, the record of experience indicates that the proposed new
Secretary, with junior Cabinet status, would not be in a position to attack
pressing urban problems from the best possible vantage point; and
WHEREAS, it is the belief of this Council that a fully informed and
adequately staffed Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs could
and would do a better job of coordinating Federal activities affecting urban
affairs than a Department, and that he would do so with less suspicion on
the part of local government officials, fearful of the creation in this coun-
try of a controlling central agency of municipal affairs, than a Department
would arouse; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the League of California Cities
has unanimously voted to oppose the above mentioned Senate Bill 1633 and House
Bill 6433 which would establish a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa that the proposed establishment of a Department of Urban Affairs
and Housing, as set forth in said Senate Bill 1633 and House Bill 6433, be,
and the same is hereby, opposed as not in the best interest of the urban
communities of the United States; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the creation by the President of the
United States, by Executive Order, of a Special Assistant to the President
for Urban Affiars, be, and the same is hereby, urged as the strongest., most
efficient, and most practical approach to the solution of urban problems; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of
Costa Mesa is hereby directed and instructed to transmit certified copies
of this Resolution to Senator Thomas Kuchel, Senator Clair Engle, Congress-
man James B. Utt, Senator John L. McClellan, Chairman of the Government
Operations Committee and Congressman William Damson, House Chairman of the
Government Operations Committee.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of February, 1962.
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Mayor bf It7y of Costa Mesa
ATTEST
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA }
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 62-19 Was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting there-
of held on the 19th day of February, 1962.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 20th day of February, 1962.
City Clerk and ex-officig Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
Chief Deputy